Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b4649f8da290ad4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-23 13:48:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 29229893664e7a61ac07a48700240775 SHA-1: 611a404be1e88fd145d5dade9457eaaf1127819b SHA-256: 3b4649f8da290ad4332e7b9f1a3f54b45eba550c43e7940cd15bd5e91c300e26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ML and ClamAV heuristics strongly indicate maliciousness, specifically classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/47245951667.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f0db2cae8---xaxowumoxowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_5FD3D6E282DDA1C9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa9829d697e---mevopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/retolodane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/vanoxovinevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/14121989483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64245420898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/raximozekidisolirigodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro8l6l9bhgv4e5ai09akh45nh1/1935550668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57a4f401cd---81591378207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/lowebovajofidilakafoput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/30158518234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2cf7c2554a943a80dd52d456c2c80fb/wovatalidarepegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/84377641108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/15320595592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/fosizedikedekagajeniwogem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/58912662314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-31/20210531210129500531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwtcs.org/Content/uploads/files/nujekunutuzazekedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4249913e1a---fudixisikigeregarepilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/lulepoxetofipigef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ed4968c3b8b3c1a70421c98a3448994/35847683665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahia-group.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezogaxorulufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28efe5488e---gikofinovudojajafaxavapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=a+simple+heart+by+gustave+flaubert+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5A 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8533f80b7b7e7f32acbf8f4b11c9135a8ce5b18eb99170773537c8fec75405
font_01_sfnt_off00010b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001235f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1235F 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 5780713c42679a883ea6d2f27bddc7ae68ad661fa342321c1d178907f2e72982